Plaiter.



PATENTED AUG. 14

1). s. KOLBECK.

PLAI-TBR. APPLICATION FILED NOVL15. 1905.

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UNITED STATES DORA s. KOLBEOK, or GRAND ISLAND,

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QPLAITER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Applicationfiled November 15, 1905. $er1'al No. 287.530.

To .1 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DORA SOPHIA KoL- BECK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residin at Grand Island, in the county of Hall and State ofNebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plaiters,of which the following is a specification.

My invention contemplates an improved construction of plaiting apparatusdesigned for use in plaiting or fiuting cloth.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, in whic I Figure 1 is a perspective View ofmy improved plaiter. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line X X ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the clamping membersdetached. Fig. 4 is a detail plan View illustrating the preferred shapeof the clamping-plate for use with gored materials.

' Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followindescription and indicated in all the views ofithe drawings by the samereference characters.

y improved plaiter comprises two spacing and clamping members,designated1 and designed to be secured at proper distances upon a board, table, orother support 2. Each of the clamps 1 comprises two super- 4, the lowerone of which is provided along its upper surface with a series ofparallel grooves or recesses 5 and near each end with an aperture 6.

he upper member 3 of each clamp is constituted by a plate which isdesigned to extend over the upper surface of the lower member 4 and isprovided with downwardlybent ends 7, extending beyond the ends of thelower member 4 and accommodating binding-screws 8, as shown, designed tosecure the clamp to the board or other support 2. The upper member 3 ofeach clamp is further provided with two or more set-screws 9, which worktherethrough into engagement with the apertures 6 in the lower member 4,so as to bind the two members together with more or less tension.

Extending needles 10, around which the cloth 11 is designed to befolded, so that it will be held thereby in the proper folds for thesubsequent action of the pressing-iron.

In the practical operation of my improved plaiting apparatus the twoclamps are secured on the board or other support 2 at the To plait thecloth 11, the operator should first place one of the needles 10 over thecloth and lay it in the second recess or groove 5 of each clamp. Asecond needle is then placed under the cloth and is brought over to thefirst recess or groove of each clam which was before omitted. Thisoperation is continued until. the goods are fastened about half-way ofthe plaiter, and the thumbscrews or set-screws 9 are then tightened, sothat the needles are prevented from movin out of their places. Thedegree to-which the screws 9 are to be tightened manifestly depends uponthe thickness of the goods. After the plaiter has been folded a dampcloth I is placed over the same and a hot iron is used until the clothbecomes dry and the suitable plaits or creases are formed, whereupon theneedles are taken out, with the exception of the last two, which areleft in the last plait, and both of them, still with the cloth foldedabout them, are then brought to the front part of the plaiter, and theoperation is continued in the same way with the remaining portion of thecloth. In the same manner gored material may be plaited by properlyspacing the needles and by the proper fold ing of the cloth around thesame.

It will be seen that my improved plaiter comprises two clamp memberseach of which consists of a lower recessed plate for the reception ofthe needles and a superposed plate having its ends extending beyond thelower plate and bent downwardly for engagement with the table or othersupport and two sets of screws, one set being located in the said set ofwhich works through the upper plate into the lower plate, so that thetwo plates may be pressed together and suitably adjusted upon theneedles according to the thickness of the cloth that is being operatedupon.

The parts of the device may be easily manufactured and readilyassembled, and the clamps may be readily secured to the support atcommodation of material of different widths.

It is to be understood that I use needles of different lengths,according to the Width of the material to be operated upon; but it ismanifest that the same length needles may be conveniently employed foruse With materials of different widths by merely position ing theclamping members at the proper dis tance apart and allowing the needles,if necessary, to project outwardly beyond either r both of the clampingdevices. By providing three lengths of needles a Wide rangeof work ispossible.

As indicated in Fig. 4, my invention contemplates the employment ofcurved clamp ing members for use with gored material, the needles beingarranged in somewhat radial positions, as shown.

the proper distances apart for the aci Having thus described the isclaimed as new is A plaiting apparatus invention, What comprising a pairof l 1 plartmg-clamps, each clamp consisting of a lower grooved plateprovided With apertures and an upper plate resting thereon and providedwith downwardly-extending ends projecting beyond the lower plate,bindingscrews in the projected ends of the upper plate and designed tosecure said plate to a support, binding screws working through saidupper plate and into the apertures in the lower plate, and a pluralityof needles adapted to be held at their ends between said plates in thegrooves of the lower plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DORA S. KOLBECK. Witnesses:

DON BOEHM, J. H. MULLIN.

